Faculty of Health Sciences

Contest Entry: Jordan Brubacher

This photo, entitled "Informal Education" was taken in La Montanita, Nicaragua. It is from Jordan Brubacher, Faculty of Health Sciences, who writes:

Last year I volunteered in a Nicaraguan community whose drinking water supply is degraded as a result of unsustainable agricultural practices. I helped develop a community-based watershed restoration plan that promotes biodiversity, water retention and purification, and crop productivity.

This photo is of two men enjoying the shade of a lonely tree while discussing what needs to be done. To me, it nicely portrays the importance of education through informal means, a process that I believe to be vital in solving many of the worlds greatest problems.

This experience inspired my current research involving drinking water and climate change.

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